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Characterized by immunodeficiency resulting from loss of CD4+ T lymphocytes, and development of lifethreatening opportunistic infections

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AIDs

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One of the most prevalent places of HIV infection in the world is

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Africa south of the sahara

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In infected persons, infectious quantities of HIV (and infected cells, also infectious) are present in blood, CSF, and semen, with smaller quantities in

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Vaginal secretions and milk

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Spread by parenteral exposure to blood, sexual intercourse, perinatally, and rarely from other forms of contact

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HIV

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Before testing was available, many people were infected with HIV via

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Transfusions

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Increase the risk of transmission, by damaging mucosal barriers and locally increasing the number of white blood cells which may become infected

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Genital tract infections or injuries

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Present in human seminal plasma was found to increase infectivity of virions by many orders of magnitude, making this interaction an attractive potential target for drug development

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Prostatic acid phosphatase fragment

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The decline in deths from AIDs after 1995 reflects the development of a

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Highly-Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART)

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The use of a combination of two RT inhibitors plus a protease inhibitor

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HAART

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The biology of HIV is deeply intertwined with the biology of its

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Host cells

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HIV gene products replicate its genome and form the structural components of

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New Virions

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A recent survey identified over 250 host-cell proteins required for efficient

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HIV replication

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Cytosolic contents are wrapped in a double shell of membrane and delivered to endosomes in

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Autophagy

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Normally function in formation of multi-vesicular bodies and degradation of plasma membrane proteins, are required for budding of HIV virions

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Proteins of the ESCRT complexes (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport)

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The primary receptor for HIV is

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CD4

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The cell tropism of HIV is largely determined by the distribution of

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CD4

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A plasma membrane glycoprotein that in structure resembles an immunoglobulin heavy chain, with four immunoglobulin-type domains

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CD4

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CD4 is present on helper T cells and cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage, including dendritic cells of epithelia, which may be the initial cells infected with

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Sexually transmitted HIV

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HIV binding to dendritic cells may also facilitate infection of

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T cells

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A surface protein of dendritic cells that binds HIV virions to the cell surface

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DC-SIGN

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Attract T cells, which then become infected

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Dendritic cell chemokines

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After infection macrophages can spread HIV, especially to secondary lymphoid organs and the

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Brain

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Can block HIV infection by occupying the receptor

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Chemokine receptors

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About 1% of U.S. Caucasians (and a lower faction of Black and Hispanic Americans) are homozygous for a deletion in the gene for the receptor

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CCR5

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Such persons have slower progression of disease after infection. However, they eventually develop

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AIDS

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The number of CCR5 gene copies varies between individuals - the higher the copy number the more rapid the progression to

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AIDs

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Some CD4- cells can be infected with HIV in vivo, especially brain astrocytes and oligodendrocytes and epithelial cells of the

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Bowel

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Here, the receptor may be a

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Glycolipid, galactosyl ceramide

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The ability of HIV to establish productive infection depends on the state of the cell infected. Monocytes and resting T cells produce little if any

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Virus

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However, these support abundant virus replication

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Macrophages and activated T cells

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The state of the infected cell may affect reverse transcription, integration, or

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Virus transcription

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The HIV promoter binds numerous cellular transcription factors (notably NF-KB) which are activated when T cells are stimulated by cytokines such as

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TNF

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Thus, T cells can not be stimulted to fight HIV without also stimulating its

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Replication

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Infection by HIV can result in a state of

-The provirus is integrated into the host genome but not expressed

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True viral latency

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Such cells persist in the face of an immune response because they produce no viral antigens and, since there is no viral replication, latent HIV is not sensitive to

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Anti-viral agents

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Latently-infected cells may later become activated and produce

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Virus

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HIV and other lentiviruses encode six small proteins not produced by other

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Retroviruses

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Bind to proteinubiquitin ligases, recruit specific host-cell proteins for ubiquitinylation, and promote their destruction by the proteosome

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Vif, vpr, and vpu

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What are the 6 regulatory proteins?

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Tat, rev, nef, vif, vpu, and vpr

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Powerful stimulator (100x) of transcription from the HIV promoter

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Transactivator (tat)

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Inhibits splicing of viral transcripts

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Rev

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Named for a putative ‘negative effect’

-Actually stimulates HIV replication and may be responsible for damage to the immune system

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Nef

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Persons infected with nef-defective HIV are ‘slow-progressors’ to

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AIDs

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Present in virion, required for infectivity

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Virion Inefectivity Factor (vif)

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Causes degradation of a DNA cytosine deaminase APOBEC which produces mutagenic damage to reverse transcripts

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Vif

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Stimulates virus release from the cell surface by delivering CD4 to the proteosome, and reducing cellsurface tetherin

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Vpu

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A protein that binds virions to the cell surface and promotes their endocytosis

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Tetherin

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Present in virion, may aid in transport of the viral core to nucleus; blocks cell division cycle in G2, when HIV transcription is more efficient than in G1

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Vpr

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Tat is an activator of

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HIV transcription

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Binds not to the HIV promoter but to tar (tat response element) of the transcript, which forms a stem-loop structure

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Tat

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Tar-bound tat binds cellular proteins which stimulate

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Transcription

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One is a protein kinase which phosphorylates the C-terminal domain of

-Facilitates promoter clearance and rapid transcription

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RNA polymerase

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Rev prevents splicing of HIV mRNA by binding to

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Rev Response Element (RRE) and exportins

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Proteins which transport molecules out of the nucleus

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Exportins

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Early after infection, Rev levels are low and most viral transcripts are fully spliced, so that the small regulatory proteins are

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Translated

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As Rev accumulates, splicing is blocked, and unspliced and singly-spliced transcripts are able to leave the

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Nucleus

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Nef-defective Simian AIDS virus (SIV) failed to produce disease and in fact gave rise to a

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Protective immune response

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Expression of Nef in transgenic mice produces an

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AIDS-like syndrome

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This suggests that nef may play a key role in

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AIDS pathology

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Has an attached fatty acid and is bound to the plasma membrane, where it may alter intracellular signaling from membrane receptors and so alter transcription

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Mature Nef

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Down-regulates expression of CD4, MHC antigens, and cytokines, including IL-2 and IFN-γ

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Nef

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Induces macrophages to secrete soluble factors which up-regulate proteins on resting T cells, causing them to become susceptible to HIV infection

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Nef

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A cellular defense against retroviruses is

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APOBEC

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A deaminase that converts cytosine to uracil in viral DNA, creating mutations

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APOBEC

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The deaminase is incorporated into new virions and acts on the DNA strands produced by

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Reverse transcription

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Incorporated into HIV virions and excludes the deaminase APOBEC

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Wif

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One member of this protein family produces an intestine-specific form of Apo-B shorter than the liver form, by converting a cytosine in mRNA to uracil and creating a stop codon

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Vif

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Another member of the Vif family causes hypermutation of

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Ig-gene

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A host protein used by HIV to defend itself

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Cyclophilin

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Cyclophilin was named because it binds the immunosuppressant

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Cyclosporin A

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Mammalian cells contain ‘restriction factors’, proteins which bind CA proteins of infecting virions and block

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Virus Replication

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Binds Cyclophilin; it is incorporated into virions and, in an as-yet-unknown way, blocks a ‘restriction factor’

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HIV CA

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Typically follows exposure to HIV by 4-8 weeks. Symptoms are non-specific and may include (from most to least common) fever, lymphadenopathy, rash, pharyngitis, myalgia, diarrhea, headache, nausea, hepatosplenomegaly, peripheral- or CNS symptoms

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Acute HIV infection

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Acute HIV infection typically presents how long after initial infection?

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4-8 Weeks

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In acute disease there is rapid viral replication and high-level

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Viremia

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Can be found in the blood during acute HIV infection?

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Infectious virus and CA (p24) antigen

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After a few weeks, HIV-specific CTL appear and a strong cell-mediated immune response clears virus from the

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Bloodstream

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Anti-HIV antibodies (seroconversion) may not appear until

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2-6 Months after infection

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Gut lymphoid tissue is a major site of early

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HIV replication

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Massive early loss of T cells creates “holes” in the T-cell repertoire as clones of memory cells are eliminated by the

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Virus

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T cells with anti-HIV specificity may be especially susceptible to

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Infection and killing

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Binds integrin α4β7

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HIV SU protein

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The receptor which causes memory T cells to ‘home’ to mucosal lymphoid tissue

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Integrin α4β7

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This in turn up-regulates the membrane protein

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LFA-1

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Promotes cell-cell association of T cells and may promote cell-to-cell spread of HIV

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LFA-1

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Untreated, the median interval between seroconversion and development of AIDS is

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10.5 years

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This period is known as the

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Asymptomatic period

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Patients do not feel ill, and unless diagnosed, do not curtail activities that transmit the virus to others

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Asymptomatic period

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During the asymptomatic period, plasma viremia is typically low due to production of

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Anti-HIV antibodies

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During the asymptomatic period, dendritic cells trap these immune complexes and remove virus from the circulation; however this may facilitate infection of dendritic cells and/or transfer of virus to

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T cells

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Plasma virus load determines the speed of progression to

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Symptomatic disease

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Which cell type has the longest half-life when treated with HIV drugs?

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Infected macrophages and dendritic cells

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During the ‘asymptomatic period’ there is slow but steady alteration of the

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Immune system

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Early there is B-cell dysregulation, polyclonal B-cell proliferation, and proliferation of

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CD8 T cells

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Later, although the total concentration of circulating lymphocytes does not change, the ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ cells progressively

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Declines

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Within the TH population, we see an

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Increase in TH2 cells and decrease in TH1 cells

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T-cell proliferation and CMI are compromised and may ultimately lead to failure of the anti-HIV

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CTL response

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Response of T-cells to previously-encountered antigens also declines, perhaps because HIV preferentially infects

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Memory T cells

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Lymphadenopathy, fever, weight loss, persistent diarrhea, and Candida infection (the “AIDS-related” complex or ARC), are the initial manifestations of

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Immune-system failure?

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Defined by rapid decline of CD4+ lymphocytes, rapid increase in plasma viremia, and development of opportunistic infections

-The last stage of HIV disease

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AIDS

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